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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (1): 1–34.
Published: 01 January 2023
..., that eighteenth-century portraiture was, and always has been, a vibrant conglomeration of disparate portrait types, in which knowledge of any one type encouraged knowledge of the whole; second, that the objects themselves made frequent reference to the generic and media networks of which they were a part...
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in Picturing Political Power: Eighteenth-Century Korean Portraits in San Francisco's Asian Art Museum
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Published: 01 January 2023
Figure 1. Likeness and Legacy in Korean Portraiture, installation view, 2021. Photograph © Asian Art Museum. The freestanding glass walls in the center of the room enabled viewers to examine both front and back of the paper drafts. One wall (to the left) displays a painting on silk of Lee Sam
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 29–59.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Bradford Mudge Situating a reading of Henry Angelo and the English “love of portraiture” between an anxiety about monuments and history on one side and an anxiety about money and fiction on the other, this essay argues for an appreciation of Angelo's Reminiscences that moves past individual...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (1): 63–80.
Published: 01 January 2023
...Figure 1. Likeness and Legacy in Korean Portraiture, installation view, 2021. Photograph © Asian Art Museum. The freestanding glass walls in the center of the room enabled viewers to examine both front and back of the paper drafts. One wall (to the left) displays a painting on silk of Lee Sam...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (3): 101–122.
Published: 01 September 2022
... queenship Napoleon Romantic portraiture motherhood In 1811, Pierre-Paul Prud'hon painted an allegorical portrait of the infant Napoleon II for Empress Marie-Louise, Napoleon's second wife and the child's mother, that was exhibited publicly at the Paris Salon the following year ( figure 1...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 54–81.
Published: 01 January 2012
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In order to appreciate fully the significance of Bell’s series to celeb-
rity culture, we should consider his portraits in the context of other modes
of actor portraiture in the second half of the eighteenth century. When
John Bell began his project, actors’ portraits were available primarily in
two...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 115–119.
Published: 01 September 2019
... attentive to issues of gender, which made public display whether on canvas or on the stage a fraught terrain for women, as female portraiture was an unstable form, and actresses were often considered morally loose. With the blurring of public and private, portraits of female actresses became even more...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (2): 101–108.
Published: 01 April 2002
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Cambridge Univ., 1995). Pp. 222. $21.95. isbn 0-521-66458-6
Clingham, Greg, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson (Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge Univ., 1997). Pp. 266. $23. isbn 0-521-55625-2
Conway, Alison. Private Interests: Women, Portraiture...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 51–54.
Published: 01 September 2010
... paintings in order to make ‘love’ legitimately
available to other women” (35). Walker explores the rich area of portraiture,
with ample illustrations of women embracing their children, and the messages
these tableaux convey. She perceives “a curious commingling of the maternal
and erotic...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (2): 66–70.
Published: 01 April 2015
... of royal portraiture,
dedicatory poems, and musical celebrations. Winn’s subtitle, celebrating Anne
as the artists’ “Patroness,” originates from an anonymous birthday ode printed
before her coronation and serves as an epigraph to the volume. In the course
of her reign, the dramatist and architect...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (1): 107–112.
Published: 01 January 2014
..., and
those who ineptly employ them. In response, the novel itself offers an alterna-
tive way of negotiating generals and particulars, a winnowing procedure that
unfolds over time: “The resulting portraiture combines overlapping categories
and isolated observed particulars. It does not ‘name’ reality...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (1): 32–58.
Published: 01 January 2016
... would argue,
is a complex destabilization of the female subject, one at variance from the
conventions of exhibition portraiture. Represented as she is, Kitty Fisher
becomes the gamble itself. She is at once the promise of pleasure and the
inevitability of its loss. She is, in Charles Cotton’s...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (2): 96–102.
Published: 01 April 2007
... presumably
on her wielding a brush. However, it is a rouge brush, not the painter’s brush,
which, with palette and porte-crayon, nearly always accompanies personifi ca-
tions of Pittura in the history of art. Allegorical portraiture abounds in the
ancien régime, but speculation about it must proceed...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (1): 109–123.
Published: 01 January 2005
..., and British Writing, 1790 – 1830. Cambridge
Studies in Romanticism, 53 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2002). Pp. 317. $65.
ISBN 0-521-81577-0
Carrera, Magali M. Imagining Identity in New Spain: Race, Lineage, and the Colonial
Body in Portraiture and Casta Paintings (Austin: Univ. of Texas...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (3): 129–142.
Published: 01 September 2004
.... Religion, Toleration, and British Writing, 1790 – 1830. Cambridge
Studies in Romanticism, 53 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2002). Pp. 37. $65.
ISBN 0-52-8577-0
Carrera, Magali M. Imagining Identity in New Spain: Race, Lineage, and the Colonial
Body in Portraiture and Casta Paintings...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 110–117.
Published: 01 September 2011
...
Scheuermann, Mona. Reading Jane Austen (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
Pp. ix + 210. $80
Shea, Louisa. The Cynic Enlightenment: Diogenes in the Salon (Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins Univ., 2010). Pp. xx + 262. $70
Shepherd, Lynn. Clarissa’s Painter: Portraiture, Illustration, and Representation...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (2): 127–134.
Published: 01 April 2014
..., Alastair J., ed. Travels in Scotland, 1788 – 1881: A Selection from Contemporary
Tourist Journals (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2012). Pp. x + 239. 42 ills. $45
Elliott, Kamilla. Portraiture and British Gothic Fiction: The Rise of Picture
Identification, 1764 – 1835 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (2): 23–48.
Published: 01 April 2003
... function— and in some respects appropri-
ated its language— in claiming to penetrate the internal realms of the mind
and heart. Certainly, the conventions of historical portraiture were open to
attack; its suspect verification and consequent vulnerability to skepticism,
its focus on external actions...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (3): 55–84.
Published: 01 September 2013
... of portraiture in the celebrity
development of Siddons in “Searching for Sarah Siddons: Portraiture and the
Historiography of Fame,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 33 (2000): 281 – 84; “Picturing
Tragedy: Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse Revisited,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 33
(2000): 401 – 30...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (1): 130–138.
Published: 01 January 2003
... in
Portraiture, 1720–1892 (Cranbury, NJ: Bucknell, 2002). Pp. 156. $59.50.
ISBN 0-8387-5495-3
Quataert, Donald. The Ottoman Empire, 1700–1922 (New York: Cambridge Univ.,
2000). Pp. 204. $20. ISBN 0-521-63360-5
O’Neal, John C. Changing Minds...
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